The FAQ document attached to this blog is the cumulative knowledge gained from hundreds of customers that have moved off UNIX/Oracle and DB2 to Windows and SQL Server in recent years. Intel based servers provide all of the required Enterprise Features...

This is the first publication starting a series of blogs about High Availability of SAP NetWeaver in virtualized environments running on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.
Part 1 gives an introduction and a brief overview (see attached document):
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SAP supports SQL Server 2012 for most SAP NetWeaver based products for quite a while – read my earlier blog post for more information. However, SAP now also supports products which are based on SAP NetWeaver 7.1 , SAP EHP1 for SAP NetWeaver 7.1 ( 7.11...

Recommended Audience: Developers, DB Administrators and System Administrators
Estimated Depth Level: 200 {100 easiest, 400 hardest}
This blog post is a rehashing of information that can be found in other locations on the web in regards to Kerberos...

Some customers do have connection issues between their SAP NetWeaver Java application server and SQL Server. Especially when they are trying to update or upgrade their SAP systems because some issues only occur if you use a more recent JVM patch level...